“Those people and families who have a family doctor for more than 15 years. They have a mortality decrease of 26 % and a 28 % emergency decrease and unnecessary hospitalizations. ”
This was revealed a few days ago in Huesca Dr. Verónica Casado, recognized as the best doctor in the world in 2018, who participated in the XXI Aragonese days of Family Medicine that welcomed the Altoaragonese Campus.
Dr. Verónica Casado, who won the 2018 Five Star Medical Award ‘ Health excellence at the Wonca World Council, of the World Family Medicine Organizationheld in Seoul, was one of the speakers of the meeting. The Aragonese Society of Family and Community Medicine (SAMFYC) and the Spanish Primary Care Network (REAP) coordinated this event, with the collaboration of the Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences of the Capital Altoaragonesa.
Verónica Casado was part of the session ‘Family and community medicine: Sanitary and Educational Strategic Axis’. In it, he raised the importance of family medicine as a health investment, “because it has been shown that whenever a state is committed to having a primary health care system, it has a better life expectancy, less unnecessary hospitalizations and has a morbidity and mortality attributable to much more reasonable primary care.”
From this idea he pointed out that Family medicine influences health by up to 30 % and asked “why this is not seen”. “If this had been a medicine we would all be taking breakfast food and dinner and yet it is costing us a lot to make visible primary care,” he added.
And valued in this sense that there is “a problem of financial, political, economic, sometimes even media visibility” since “almost always when The news of primary care is because it is wrong and because residents do not love us, Thing that is absolutely false. ”
Therefore, he opted to “value family medicine and get many more professionals who are well trained with the specialty of family medicine.”
And, as Verónica Casado, the family medicine “saves lives” highlighted. “I have been with my place for patients over 30 years, I am absolutely convinced that there are many people That they are alive especially for knowledge, because one of the things that has the most value is longitudinality, that is, having the same family doctor for years, ”he said.
The doctor can know “what are his risk factors, what is his family environment, what are the things that happen to him and attend him in a much more global way and with more possibilities of being able to redirect those things that are not well.”
The doctor, who was also recognized in Prague in 2017 as the best family doctor in Europe and in the spring of 2018 in Cali (Colombia) as the best family doctor in Latin America, He held the position of Minister of Health of Castilla y León from 2019 to 2021.
In the province of Huesca, he valued, “Family medicine is very necessary.” “I come from a community like yours that has unpopulated areas, which has aging areas And it is absolutely necessary to have highly qualified people who bet as a health investment for people’s health, ”he said.
And he added that in Alto Aragón “you have dispersion, aging population, multimorbility, many chronic patients … All these things are indicators that what they think is to people who are responsible for management have to organize this sector very well because this will improve the health level of the population.”
In addition, He considered that family medicine is essential to detect mental health problems being “closer to the population”. These doctors can therefore detect the risks that lurk some people with a complicated situation, “or when is anxiety, stress …”.
